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My apologies for the tardy response. The -dev list must be used for project-specific communication between project committers. There's a couple of reasons for this in addition to the very good reason provided by Andreas... First, to join the "dev" list, participants agree that contributions are governed by our Terms Of Use. This provides some legal cover when ideas (or even small bits of code) are used in implementations (note that if you take code off of a mailing list, you still need to go through the Eclipse IP Due Diligence process). Further, these communications contain important information that must be maintained indefinitely, and by keeping archives under our webmaster control, we are insulated from changes in business plans, etc. of third-party providers. Communication with the user community is more flexible. You
really do need to go where the users go. You don't need to keep
the forum, but if you do, please make sure that it is monitored
regularly. If you do decide to use an external service for this
sort of group, as much as is possible, please make sure that the
web presence conforms to the trademark guidelines (e.g. include a
trademark message "RDF4J is a trademark of the Eclipse
Foundation"). HTH,
Wayne On 27/05/16 08:43 AM, Andreas Sewe
wrote:
Hi,During Eclipse project initiation, the webmaster created the standard new fora for us to use: the rdf4j-dev mailinglist, and the RDF4J web forum at https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/f/316/ . My question is: is there any preference from within the Eclipse community to switch to these new fora, or can we (as is our current preference) continue using our existing groups? Are there any advantages that I may be overlooking to switch to these?I think having the developers list (as opposed to the user list) here at eclipse.org makes sense, in particular as there are a few processes that send mails to rdf4j-dev (committer elections through the Portal, for example). I don't know whether these processes can be configured to use a different mailing list or whether they always use the eclipse.org list. If the latter, every developer has to stay subscribed to both rdf4j@xxxxxxxxxxx and the Google group to not miss out on anything. Hope that helps. Andreas --
Wayne Beaton @waynebeaton The Eclipse Foundation 
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